Dares, the statistics branch of the Ministry of Labor, published this Thursday, November 14, 2024 a study on the beneficiaries of the revaluation of the minimum wage, which increased in total by 3.4% between the 1is January 2023 and 2024. This study shows in particular that the number of beneficiaries of these upgrades decreased between these two dates.
“As of January 1, 2024, 2.7 million employees in the non-agricultural private sector directly benefited from this increase, or 14.6% of employees, compared to 17.3% a year earlier”notes Dares. L'Agence France Presse adds, however, that the proportion of beneficiaries of the revaluation does not entirely correspond to the percentage of employees paid the minimum wage, because some of them receive “elements of remuneration not included in the minimum wage base”.
What developments in the different branches?
The proportion of employees benefiting from the increase in the minimum wage has notably fallen by a quarter (from 39.5% to 28.2%) in the Hotel, catering and tourism sector, and by more than half (40.6% to 18.6%) in cleaning, handling, recovery and security. But it increased from 39.2% to 43.9% in commerce, mainly food.
The hotel, cafe and restaurant branches as well as bakeries and pastries had, in June 2023, a revaluation causing their share of employees affected by the increase in the minimum wage to fall by respectively 15.4 and 14.8 points, further details the studies department of the ministry (Dares).
“Among the 2.7 million employees benefiting from the increase in the minimum wage on January 1, 2024, 1.5 million are women”adds Dares. They therefore represent 57% of the beneficiaries of the increase in the minimum wage, while they only represent 45.3% of private sector employees.
Why such a drop in the number of beneficiaries?
Dares explains that this drop in the number of beneficiaries of the increase in the minimum wage is linked to the fact that collective agreements providing for a salary scale with a first step below the minimum wage are fewer than in the past.
“As of December 31, 2023, 3.7% of employees belonged to companies applying a sector agreement that does not comply with the minimum wage. This share was down compared to the previous year (7.0% as of December 31, 2022),” indicates Dares.
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